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The man who killed Google Search?

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1884 points elorant | 2 comments | 23 Apr 24 16:43 UTC | HN request time: 1.562s | source
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ppeetteerr ◴[23 Apr 24 19:09 UTC] No.40135913[source]▶
What killed Google Search are the AI research papers that ultimately led to the rise of OpenAI
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1. kreeben ◴[23 Apr 24 21:03 UTC] No.40137234[source]▶
word2vec, invented by Google, killed Google?

I mean, it would serve as a terrific headline but I don't really buy it, do you?

I think it's more "Very poor search results, infested with ads, killed Google's dreams of becoming the next Microsoft and will now die a slow death and end up making millions instead of billions".

Dying might not be that bad, after all.

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2. ppeetteerr ◴[23 Apr 24 22:34 UTC] No.40138138[source]▶
Yeah, it's a lot of what you said but if it were the only player in town, then you'd have to deal with the monopoly. With AI, I can pull up a 70-99% accurate answer to my question (for many questions) and avoid the mess of ads altogether.

You can tell Alphabet is panicking because they started showing AI-generated answers to searches above the ads they serve.